YouTube Will Label Videos on Mail Voting to Blunt Misinformation
A vote by mail dropbox at Boston City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.
Photographer: Scott Eisen/BloombergYouTube will now treat videos about mail-in voting the same as footage on climate change or 9/11, another attempt from the social media giant to mitigate misinformation ahead of the contentious U.S. presidential election.
Videos that discuss mail-in voting will include text and links on electoral law from a think tank, the Bipartisan Policy Center, YouTube said Thursday in a blog post. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that mail ballots would lead to massive voter fraud, although there is no evidence for this. YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, previously released several rules on election-related videos, including policies to remove media that “aims to mislead” viewers about voting.